From: Stephanie Ferguson-Warren Scorpi3308@aol.com Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:31:56 EST Searching for ancestry of Samuel Patrick Ferguson. Spelling various on earlier census as Furgason. Born September, 1853 in Virginia. Consistent state of birth on all censuses. Married in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio to Eustatia Guthrie in 1874. Sam's father is listed as Elisha Furgason as affirmant on marriage certificate in Ironton. Sam P. Ferguson and wife Frances Eustatia Guthrie listed on Greenup County, KY census until no trace after 1880 census list. Eustatia died in 1892 in Waldo, Arkansas and is buried in the Waldo cemetery. There were seven known children to this union: Alice, Mary, Matilda, Kelley, Ellen, Albert and Robert. Sam was married several times after death of Eustatia to: Georga (spelling on census in 1900), Florence Waldrop in Harrison County, Mississippi in 1905, Dally B. LNU in Tuscaloosa, AL census 1920. Samuel listed as a Mason in Arkansas and son Kelley listed as a Mason in Winn Parish, Louisiana. Samuel died in 1946 and is buried in Waldo, Arkansas next to his first wife Frances Eustatia Guthrie. Samuel was a railroad engineer as occupation on several censuses. Cannot ascertain exact spelling on Sam's father as it is sometimes listed as Elisha, Eligah, Elijah in Greenup County, Kentucky and various Virginia censuses. Surnames of children's spouses: Baker, Ussrey, Brown, Dempsey, Keith, Todd. Stephanie Ferguson-Warren (Houston, Texas)